Concert Pipeline

Episode 499 of Concert Pipeline featuring coverage and a review of Andrew McMahon’s Three Pianos show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado with his three bands, Something Corporate, Jack’s Mannequin, and Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. We chat with three die-hard fans: Whitney Marie, Celeste Guse, and Joe Wilson, former co-host of Concert Pipeline podcast about how/when they became fans of McMa...

Episode 498 of Concert Pipeline featuring J. Michael Phillips and a review of his show with Yelawolf at Channel 24 in Sacramento. First we chat with J. Michael about   his upbringing in music, getting signed to Yelawolf’s label Slumerican, standing up for the underdog, combining country grit with hip-hop energy, how it was a point of pride at the time to be in prison, writing music in prison, maki...

Episode 497 of Concert Pipeline featuring Two Wolf, in which we talk to Greg T. Walker about starting a band with members of Blackfoot at age 10, his first band Rockin’ Aces, playing shows 5 nights a week, learning to play bass when forming Blackfoot, his time in Lynyrd Skynyrd and the reformation of Blackfoot, playing the Rock Legends Cruise, crafting traditional Native American items, touring wi...

Episode 496 of Concert Pipeline featuring Peter Salett and a review of Ben Kweller’s show at The Independent in San Francisco. We talk to Peter about getting his start in music, his first album “Painting of These Days,” The Hometown Project which pairs actors and musicians with progressive candidates and causes, his double album “Suite for the Summer Rain/Dance of the Yellow Leaf,” co-writing a Dr...

Episode 495 of Concert Pipeline featuring Cardinal Black and a review of Gary Mullen & The Works’ One Night of Queen show at Mountain Winery in Saratoga (Check out episode 493 for the interview with Gary). We talk with Tom Hollister about starting his band as the Tom Hollister Trio, breaking from the band with Chris Buck and Adam Roberts for 11 years and coming back as Cardinal Black around co...

Episode 494 of Concert Pipeline featuring John McAndrew, in which we chat about being in country rock bands early on called “Steamboat Willie” and “Maverick,” his first album “Like We Were Made of Gold,” getting his songs in movies, opening a national Town Hall meeting with Colin Powell, playing at the 50th anniversary of NATO at the Vice President’s residence, his path to recovery and how he’s se...

Episode 493 of Concert Pipeline featuring Gary Mullen & The Works in which we talk about his live show “One Night of Queen,” getting inspiration from his mom and uncle being singers, listening to Queen from a very young age, his wife and mother submitting him to a talent show “Stars in Your Eyes,” going backstage at a Queen show, talking to Brian May for 45 minutes at a show, being a fan of Ke...

Episode 492 of Concert Pipeline in which we chat with Terra Renae about starting in choir and school plays, earning her doctorate and ditching medicine to pursue her music full time, making music with her husband Praveen, being set up in a studio by a friend and meeting Macy Gray, who took her under her wing as a mentor and has brought her on a European tour and upcoming US tour, being a competiti...

Episode 491 of Concert Pipeline podcast featuring a review and concert coverage of Everclear and Hoobastank’s show at the San Mateo County Fair on May 31 as well as Finn Wolfhard’s show at The Independent in San Francisco on June 10. 

Episode 490 of Concert Pipeline featuring Fastball, in which we chat with Miles Zuniga about his new single “America,” lead up to their 1998 album “All The Pain Money Can Buy” featuring smash its “The Way” and “Out of My Head,” hearing his music on the radio for the first time, playing a 90s cruise, making solo music and having a side band, and their current tour with Bare Naked Ladies and Guster,...

Episode 489 of Concert Pipeline features BottleRock 2025 coverage including interviews with Weekend Youth and Miya Folick, as well as performances from Grace Bowers, Allen Stone, and Bella Raye, and culinary demonstrations with Bobby Flay, Ken Griffey Jr. and Noah Kahan.

Episode 488 of Concert Pipeline features BottleRock 2025 coverage including an interview with The Saint Cecilia, as well as performances from Justin Timberlake, Benson Boone, Lawrence, Ava Maybee, Kate Hudson, and culinary demonstrations with Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Kate Hudson.

Episode 487 of Concert Pipeline features BottleRock 2025 coverage including interviews with Alisun and Miya Folick, as well as performances from Green Day, Sublime, The Alive, The Story So Far, and a culinary demonstration with Flavor Flav.

Episode 487 of Concert Pipeline featuring Rose Paradise. First we chat with Rose about her set at Brick & Mortar, writing her first album at 10 years old, growing up in Stinson Beach, playing with Sid Simons, incorporating in the NY music scene, and her new album “Over the Hill.” We also include a few songs from Rose’s set at Brick & Mortar. Then we review OK Go’s sold out show at The Fill...

Episode 485 of Concert Pipeline featuring Kurt Deimer and a tribute to former Concert Pipeline guest, Joe Louis Walker, who passed away on April 30 at the age of 75. First we tribute Joe by sharing most of the interview from 2016. We then talk to Kurt Deimer about his need to stop playing music at the age of 20 and coming back to it many years later, touring with Steel Panther and Buckcherry, his...

Episode 484 of Concert Pipeline featuring Sid Simons at Brick and Mortar in San Francisco, in which we talk about his progression through different bands, insisting his brother learn bass for his previous band, pride over his brother being in the movie Iron Claw, living in China and Australia, writing many songs and driving across the country instead of graduating High School, the New York music s...

Episode 483 of Concert Pipeline, featuring coverage of Live in the Vineyard Goes Country’s main event at Uptown Theatre in Napa, with performances from Jordan Davis, Max McNown, RaeLynn, CeCe, Ben Gallaher, and Bradley Gaskin. 

Episode 482 of Concert Pipeline , featuring coverage of Live in the Vineyard Goes Country’s welcome reception with performance from Greylan James (and an interview), Adam Doleac, Caroline Jones, and Brett Young. 

Episode 481 of Concert Pipeline featuring Lexi Jones and a review of AC/DC’s show with The Pretty Reckless at Rose Bowl in Pasadena. We chat with Lexi about her history in music including having songs in the movie “Rottentail” among others, going to Missouri State University and writing a song “Room 415” about her room there, her song in 2020 “Proud to be a Woman” and passion around female empower...

Episode 480 of Concert Pipeline featuring Paul Rappaport, author of the book “Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships, Airplanes, and the Art of Rock Promotion” and former rock promoter of legends, in which we talk about his path with Columbia Records, being responsible for getting Mick Jagger’s album “She’s the Boss” to #1, how he got Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead’s album to chart, playing a show wi...

Episode 479 of Concert Pipeline featuring Zach Paradis, in which we chat about growing up in a family with 8 older siblings, playing piano for a year as a kid before picking up the drums and playing them in a High School band, releasing his collaboration EP “we’re all just growing up” with Egomi in 2020 right before Covid hit, being discovered by Crash Adams on TikTok, his current tour with Abe Pa...

Episode 478 of Concert Pipeline featuring Clem Snide, in which we talk to Eef Barzeley about his start in music, seeing Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins in a tiny club with about 12 people, moving from his home in Nashville after 20 years, starting Clem Snide in the early 90s and making their first album in 1998, the impact of having their song as the show Ed’s theme song, a superfan in Spain sending...

Episode 477 of Concert Pipeline featuring Save Ferris, in which we chat with Monique Powell about her friendship with Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, early days of Warped Tour in 1998 and coming back and playing in 2017, recording “She Has a Girlfriend Now” with Reel Big Fish, managing her band, keeping her promise to her dad to bring Save Ferris back after an intense surgery, seeing her mom at a...

Episode 476 featuring Taylor Rae, in which we talk about writing her first song at age 12, switching from piano to guitar, writing her first album “Mad Twenties,” driving from Colorado to California, fighting through a challenging relationship, letting go of an important friendship, touring with John Craigie, her favorite venues in the Bay Area, and her new album “The Void,” out April 18. 

Episode 475 of Concert Pipeline featuring The Ritualists, in which we speak to Christian Dryden about performing for family when he was 3 years old, starting out as a singing drummer, progressing to bass, identifying that the band’s first video didn’t connect with the message of the song, recording their debut album, “Painted People” and the challenges of releasing it right before the pandemic, wo...